[Scummvm-devel] Rename tools_cli and tools_gui

Johannes Schickel lordhoto at gmail.com
Thu Dec 24 20:18:36 CET 2009


On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Eugene Sandulenko <sev at scummvm.org> wrote:
> 2009/12/24 Max Horn <max at quendi.de>:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> regarding the tools GUI branch: I think tools_cli and tools_gui are
>> highly inappropriate names for the executables there; far to bland and
>> non-descript. We should rename them to indicate what they are good for
>> and that they are related to ScummVM. Say, we could call them
>> scummvm_tools_cli and scummvm_tools_gui -- not great at all, but
>> definitely better than what we have now. Better ideas? :-)
> I would call them scummvm_tools and scummvm_tools_cli, to emphasize
> that GUI tool is primary and shorten one of them :)

I would rather use "-" instead of "_" though, it's easier to type
usually and should match what most Unix tools are using too (when they
use that character at all ;-).

// Johannes




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